Tag: mencius

There are people renowned as great creators only because no one has ever refuted their weak arguments.

He who is wise does not worry about external events, does not mind what others think of him, never loses calm and peace; if an external event kept him worried for more than a morning, he would not be a true wise man.

In the book titled Spring and Autumn there’s no account of a legal and fair war. Even though some wars have a certain appearance of legality and justice, those too must be considered unfair.

It is better not to know the books of History than to unconditionally accept what they say.

It is not convenient to proclaim that the reason for every human action is the profit and benefits that can be obtained from it.

You search for the straight path far away and it is beside you. You believe that Goodness consists in making difficult things, when it is nothing more than making easy things with rectitude.

He who practises Kindness will never have enemies.

There are many ways to teach. Several times I have refused to expose my doctrines to certain men, but with this attitude I have also given them a teaching; the silence does not demand any effort, but it is also eloquent.

Even though the sky is far away and we cannot reach the stars, it is not difficult to discover the laws of the universe through their effects; if we know the laws of the universe, it will not be difficult to predict the exact date on which the winter solstice will occur, a thousand years from now.